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This book is based on my lecture notes for the Winter 2013, University of Toronto Basic Statistical Mechanics course (PHY452H1S), taught by Prof. Arun Paramekanti.== Official course description: Classical and quantum statistical mechanics of noninteracting systems; the statistical basis of thermodynamics; ensembles, partition function; thermodynamic equilibrium; stability and fluctuations; formulation of quantum statistics; theory of simple gases; ideal Bose and Fermi systems.== This book contains: - Plain old lecture notes. These mirror what was covered in class, possibly augmented with additional details.- Personal notes exploring details that were not clear to me from the lectures, or from the texts associated with the lecture material.- Assigned problems. Like anything else take these as is. I may or may not have gone back and corrected errors, and did not see the graded versions of the last two problem sets.- Some worked problems attempted as course prep, for fun, or for test preparation, or post test reflection.- Links to Mathematica workbooks associated with these notes.

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